I am a second-year board member of the Minnesota Middle School Association and have been teaching for 13 years both in the metro area and St. Peter. I have spent half of my teaching career in the middle school setting, teaching 6th and 7th-grade science, math and STEM. The last seven years I have dived into the STEM world and instructional coaching. As a teacher and instructional coach, I enjoy the collaboration, conversation, reflection and questioning that pushes our thinking.